Ordinary Gweilo

Poor old Phil at Expat@Large has been suffering from that heady mix of arrogance and incompetence that seems to afflict large companies from time to time.  He registered his domain name with Lycos, who then decided that they didn’t want to accept pesky foreign credit cards and so refused to take his money to renew the domain. 

Which would be OK, I suppose, if they had told him this in advance and let him transfer his domain to another provider.  Oh no, they didn’t – instead they renewed it and are keeping for themselves until he can find a US credit card in order to pay them.  Brilliant.

So now he has a new domain, and the old one is gone.